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The 2013 edition of the Almanac looks at the historic monthly performance of the FTSE 350 sectors. Here we look at the Support Services sector.

The following chart plots the average out-performance of the FTSE 350 Support Services sector over the FTSE 100 Index by month since 1999. For example, since 1999 on average the sector has out-performed the FTSE 100 Index by 1.2 percentage points in January.

Observations:

The strongest months have been January and December – the sector has under-performed the market only four times in December in the last 14 years.

The weakest month has been July – the sector has out-performed the market only four times in July in the last 14 years.